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(No Model.)

A. RAMMOSER.

FASTENING FOR GLOVES 0R GORSETS.

Patented July 31, 1888.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE ALBERT RAMMOSER, OF BERLIN, GERMANY.

FASTENING FOR GLOVES OR CORSETS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 387,009, dated July 31,1888.

Application filed August 8, 1887. Serial No. 346,476. (No model.)Patented in England May 27, 1887, No. 7,759, and in Belgium June 20,1587, No. 77,665.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALBERT RAMMOSER, engineer, of Berlin, in the Kingdomof Prussia and German Empire, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Fastenings for Gloves, Trunks, Corsets, and other Like Purposes, ofwhich the following is a specification, reference being bad therein tothe accompanying drawings, (no patents being obtained by me anywhere forthis invention save in Belgium, No. 77,665, dated June 20, 1887, and inEngland, No. 7,759, dated May 27, 1887.)

My invention relates to improvements in fastenings for gloves, trunks,corsets, and other like purposes.

This improved fastening is so arranged that upon pushing together orshutting up an automatic fastening is effected, while the work ofopening is easily done by pushing back the fasteniughook, though noautomatic opening of the fastening is possible.

Figures 1 and 2 show a single fastening.

The fastening, Figs. 1 and 2, consists of the hook part a, forked plateor part 6, with forks d d, and the fastening-stud g. The hook part arests at f on the plate 6, and can turn round, and is continuouslypressed upon by the spiral spring 2', which lies at k in the cage orguide on the plate 6. The hook I) closes up the space between the forksd d with the exception of an aperture of suitable size, h, Fig. 1. Intothis aperture the stud g enters, being introduced between the ends ofthe forks (l d. When sliding along the hooksurface b, it is pressedintothe hook part a until the stud g is caught in the aperture h by theshoulder forming the hook I).

In opening the fastening the hook is pressed back by means of the pin l011 the arm or fork c of plate a, so that the stud g is released and canpass out from the forks d d.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the UnitedStates, is

The improved construction of fastenings for gloves, trunks, corsets, andother like purposes, eonsisting of the part a, turning on the pin oraxis f, with the hook b thereon, which, by means of the spring *5, iskept closed across the forks (Z d, and catches and retains the stud 9,all substantially in the manner and for the purposes hereinbeforedescribed.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of twowitnesses.

ALBERT RAMMOSER.

Witnesses:

B. R01, FRIEDRICH SOHRADER,

